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cocky; cockie
noun- a cockroach AUSTRALIA, 1984
- Proof that cockies were a more intelligent life force. So, they would inherit the earth, after all. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 115, 1987
- a cockatoo AUSTRALIA, 1834
Occasionally used loosely of other parrots. Frequently as a name for a pet cockatoo. - “Scratch Cocky’s comb,” the bird invited, inclining the sulphur crest[.] — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 140, 1962
- When I got home I would put her in the old cage the cocky had lived in until he had died[.] — T. A. G. Hungerford, Stories From Suburban Road, p. 2, 1983
- a sheep which has lost some of its wool AUSTRALIA
- — Sidney J. Baker, The Drum, 1959
- a small-scale farmer AUSTRALIA, 1871
Often preceded by the crop or livestock farmed, such as COW COCKYSPUD COCKY - We was helping a cocky keep the fire off his wheat and the wind turns round and our camp cops the lot. — Kylie Tennant, The Honey Flow, p. 15, 1956
- That’s when we won the Quilpie Polo Gold Cup against all the cockies[.] — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 105, 1994
- used as a term of endearment; hence as a more general form of address UK, 1687
- “We dont know how long I’ve got,” says Simon [Cadell] [...] “so we’d better get on with it, eh, cockie?” — Gyles Brandreth, Breaking the Code, p. 220, 1999
▶ like cocky on the biscuit tin
left out; on the outside looking in AUSTRALIA
Referring to Arnott’s biscuits which have since at least 1910 had a logo of a parrot eating a biscuit adorning their biscuit tins.- Like those gaily-painted customers’ chairs in general stores promoting biscuits–the same biscuits, incidentally, that gave the Australian language that useful phrase “sitting round like a cocky on a biscuit tin.” — Suzy Jarratt, Permissive Australia, p. 160, 1970
- Out here like the bloody cocky on the bloody biscuit tin. — Richard Beckett, The Dinkum Aussie Dictionary, p. 15, 1986
▶ like the bottom of a cocky’s cage
(of the mouth or tongue) in a disgusting state from being hungover AUSTRALIA- When Curly woke up with roadmap eyes and a mouth like the bottom of a cocky’s cage, he was under the kitchen table. — Frank Hardy, Hardy’s People, p. 128, 1986
- One is said to have “a mouth like the bottom of a cocky’s cage” when one is suffering from a terminal hangover. — Richard Beckett, The Dinkum Aussie Dictionary, p. 15, 1986
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